Russia scraps nine more Topol systems under START-1 treaty

Topic: Russia scraps nine more Topol systems under START-1 treaty

Russia scraps nine more Topol systems under START-1 treaty

MOSCOW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has dismantled another nine outdated Topol mobile missile systems under a major international treaty on strategic arms reductions, the Strategic Missile Forces said in a statement Tuesday.
"In March, May and August we scrapped nine Topol systems at a time [total of 27]," the statement said. "We also scrapped nine such systems between October 8 and 23."
The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-I) was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union on July 31, 1991, five months before the Union collapsed, and remains in force between the U.S., Russia, and three other ex-Soviet states.
Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine have since disposed of all their nuclear weapon